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It's easy to forget if you live far from a fault line, but Earth has a heartbeat you can feel.
At the junctures between continental plates, slippages create earthquakes and magma boils up from below in a never-ending process of creation and destruction. Now, for the first time, a global visualization of seismic and volcanic data lets us spy on the planet as it moves and shakes.read more

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